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1 Ar my S c ience & Technolog y Future Needs and Capabilities Brief to the Military Medicine Partnership Days Kristopher Gardner Acting Director for Research & Technology Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research and Technology) 20 April 2016

2 Chief of Staff of the Army Future Army Priority We will do what it takes to build an agile, adaptive Army of the future. We need to listen and learn - first from the Army itself, from other Services, from our interagency partners, but also from the private sector, and even from our critics. Developing a lethal, professional and technically competent force requires an openness to new ideas and new ways of doing things in an increasingly complex world. We will change and adapt. MARK A. MILLEY General, United States Army 39th Chief of Staff of the Army 2

3 Army S&T Principles MISSION: Identify, develop and demonstrate technology options that inform and enable effective and affordable capabilities for the Soldier VISION: Providing Soldiers with the Technology to Win Current Force Enabling the Future Force Future Force Deployable Force Protection Adaptive Red Team Cyber tools Next Generation Rotorcraft Advanced Rotary Wing Aerial Delivery Autonomous Mobility Sling Load Net Appliqué System Neuroscience High Energy Lasers Video from High Speed Container Unmanned Aerial Delivery System Systems Enhancing the Current Force Combat Vehicle Prototyping 3

4 Secretary of the Army Honorable Patrick J. Murphy ( Acting) Under Secretary of the Army Honorable Patrick J. Murphy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Honorable Katrina McFarland (Acting) Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research & Technology) Army S&T Enterprise ERDC Cold Regions Research & Engineering Lab Research Institute of Environmental Medicine Natick Soldier RDEC AMRDEC Army Aeroflight Dynamics Directorate ARL Battlefield Environments and Survivability Elements U.S. Army Materiel Command U.S. Army Medical Command U.S. Army Corps of Engineers U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command Headquarters, Department of the Army, G-1 ERDC Construction Engineering Research Lab Institute of Surgical Research Space & Missile Defense Command Technical Center Tank Automotive RDEC Aviation & Missile RDEC ARL Army Research Office Aeromedical Research Lab ARL Simulation & Training Technology Engineer Research and Center Development Center Coastal and Hydraulics Lab Environmental Lab Geotechnical & Structures Lab Info Tech Lab Armament RDEC Edgewood Chem Bio Center Army Research Lab (ARL) Research Institute of Infectious Disease Walter Reed Army Institute of Research ERDC Geospatial Research Laboratory Army Research Institute for the Behavioral & Social Sciences Research Institute of Chemical Defense HQ, RDECOM Communications- Electronics RDEC 4

5 Army Enduring Challenges Greater force protection (Soldier, vehicle, base) to ensure survivability across all operations Ease overburdened Soldiers in Small Units Timely mission command & tactical intelligence to provide situation awareness and communications in all environments Reduce logistic burden of storing, transporting, distributing and retrograde of materials Create operational overmatch (enhanced lethality and accuracy) Achieve operational maneuverability in all environments and at high operational tempo Enable early detection and improved outcomes for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Improve operational energy Improve individual & team training Reduce lifecycle cost of future Army capabilities 5

6 Modernization Strategy in a Fiscally Challenged Environment Reduce procurement quantities to match force structure reductions Gained efficiencies Leveraging multi-year procurement (Black Hawk, Chinook) Incorporate Better Buying Power initiatives (contracting, shouldcost, competition) Protect S&T to ensure next generation of breakthrough technologies Delay some new capability development & invest in next generation of capabilities Incremental upgrades to increase capabilities; modernize aging systems Enable near-term readiness for contingencies Reduce O&S cost; address non-standard equipment O&S= Operations & Support 6

7 Emerging Areas of Interest Third Offset Technology Wargaming Army S&T Red Teaming 7

8 Third Offset Concept Areas Long-Range Weapons -- Weapons and concepts for Surface-Strike and Air-to-Air Combat Low-Cost Defense -- Ability to defend key capabilities or locations (Maneuver Forces and Operating Bases) Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence Autonomous "deep learning" machines and systems to improve early warning Human-machine collaboration, specifically in assisted decision-making Assisted-human operations, or ways that machines can make the human operate more effectively Advanced human-machine teaming Semi-autonomous weapons that are hardened to operate in an electronic warfare environment Cyber and EW Capabilities including Advances in Cognitive Systems that can Sense, Learn, and React Automatically Expand Wargaming, Conduct Prototyping, Test New Operational Concepts, Tactics, Techniques and Procedures 8

9 Crowdsource future capabilities from the Army S&T enterprise, academia, and non-traditional DoD thinkers Mitigates risk of cognitive bias s within the Department of the Army by leveraging the creativity and insight of non-traditional DoD individuals and organizations Executed through in-person and online ideation exercises Analyze potential technologies using bibliographic-based data analytics (universities, personnel, countries performing the research) Create a functional decomposition of a potential capability through SME review Assign probabilities and perform Monte Carlo Simulation to create a here-to-there narrative for how basic science advances will produce an Army capability through a Technology Sequence Analysis (TSA) Provide broad future S&T context in Annual Trends Report Technology Wargaming Overview The elite amateurs were on average about 30% more accurate than the experts with access to classified information...the full pool of amateurs also outperformed the experts. The most careful, curious, open-minded, persistent and self-critical did the best. 1 Crowdsourcing S&T Trends Report SME-Informed Bibliometric Search Deep Dive Analysis 1 Zweig, J. (2015, September 25). The Trick to Making Better Forecasts. Retrieved November 20, 2015, from 9

10 Army S&T Red Teaming New theaters present new challenges future operations with technically savvy opponents require red teaming of technologies and systems to maintain military superiority Identify and understand potential vulnerabilities early in the materiel development lifecycle Independent Assessment of: Integrated Sub-Systems/Systems Emerging Technology Components Sensor Protection against Future Threats Red Team with adversary tools and methods Eye Damage Sensor Damage Conduct lab, virtual, and live field red teaming to stress and assess technology components and integrated systems Use state-of-the-art tools and methodologies to identify potential vulnerabilities across a spectrum of threats and environments Provide opportunities for design and/or employment improvements to benefit the Warfighter Challenge conventional approaches to insertion identify risks, reduce vulnerabilities and optimize performance in operations 10

11 What the Army Needs Alternate/Redundant (and Affordable) Capabilities Open Systems Architectures that lead to Ease of Upgrades Understanding of the Vulnerabilities in both Technology and Systems (and Mitigation Strategies) Lower Cost, Capable Systems Simplicity vs. Complexity We must leverage Industry R&D efforts to provide the best technology to our Soldiers 11

12 Ground Maneuver - Holistic/synergistic protection, adaptive armor, and Upgradable Active Protection Systems (APS) Low-cost sensors/algorithms for tracking and cueing targets in cluttered environments Counter-munition capability to defeat RPGs/ ATGMs with expandable capabilities - Energy dense engines for improved mobility and fuel efficiency - Open and Common power and digital data management and distribution Soldier/Squad - Material and textiles for individual protection - Lightweight, low-cost Situational Awareness techs - Human Performance Human Performance Monitoring and Augmentation (exoskeleton, vision and hearing aides, etc) Interactive Synthetic Training Environments Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Learning Systems Air - Advanced Aircraft Survivability Affordable multi-spectral sensors Threat-agnostic detection/warning systems Integrated Electronic Counter-Measures(ECM) - Advanced Aircraft Design and Power Systems - High Performance Rotors - Effective diagnostics/prognostics Specific Examples Industry Design Team Advanced Concepting Holistic Air Survivability Counter Integrated Air Defense: Multi-Spectral Threat Tier 2: Unmanned Team Tier 2: Coordinated Off-Axis Jamming Multi-Spectral Air Defense Missile Adversary Integrated Air Defense Air Defense Data Link Tier 3: Expendable Countermeasures Tier 2: Cognitive Countermeasure and Precision Directed Energy A ir Defense RADAR Tier 3: APS Envelope Tier 2: Active Tracking for APS Tier 3: APS Munition Tier 2: Coordinated Stand-Off Jamming Tier 1: Threat Agnostic Warning Reduced Signature Cognitive Controls Tier 2: Unmanned Team Backhaul Link to TOC 12

13 Command Control Communications & Intelligence - Radio Frequency Spectrum Agility Assured Communications, Undetectable Comms Position, Navigation & Timing (PNT) Alternatives (that maintain accuracy up to 72hrs in denied environments) Cyber/EW Convergence - Common Integrated Architectures - 3D Digital Read Out Integrated Circuits for Focal Plane Arrays - Energy efficient electronic components Lethality - Directed Energy Low-cost, lightweight agile beam-control system On-the-Move target/track capability GEO - Energetics, Propulsion and Warheads for increasemedo LEO range and effects - Guidance for improved and/or GPS-denied precision - Seeker technologies to defeat moving targets and air defense threats Innovation Enablers / Basic Research - Affordable net-zero technologies to achieve sustainable installations and bases - Hi-fidelity, physics-based models of platform performance in realistic operational environments - Autonomous systems with a focus on enhanced intelligence, biomimetic functionality, and robust mobility that enables teaming with Soldiers INTEL AVIATION AVIATION PLATOON SQUAD Specific Examples SL PL Quick reaction SATCOM augmentation BATTALION COMPANY CO P N T STRATEGIC BRIGADE ARTILLERY SUPPORT 13

14 Medical S&T Initiatives Infectious Disease Driver: Counter Infectious diseases & persistent environmental health hazards Goal: Develop methods to prevent, treat, and / or diagnose naturally occurring viral, parasitic and bacterial diseases and infections that can impact military mobilization, deployment, or force effectiveness. Combat Casualty Care Driver: Counter effects of conventional and emerging threats Goal: Develop capabilities to support first responders, increasing survival rate of preventable combat deaths and improve recovery. Malaria parasite inside red blood cells Drug development with commercial partner Prophylactic Drugs to Prevent Drug Resistant Malaria Military Operational Medicine Driver: Enable Warfighter performance in austere environments / extended operations The final product Goal: Establish and maintain optimal mental and physical health and fitness through development of health and performance metrics and strategies allowing longitudinal assessment, monitoring & intervention. Biomarker for detection of Multiple Organ injury Tailored, Individualized Health and Performance Monitoring Refrigerated platelet storage technology Fracture Putty Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine Driver: Preserve combat power Non-Invasive Neuro- Diagnostic (NINAD) for TBI Goal: Identify drugs, biologics, medical devices / procedures to minimize long-term effects of battlefield injury, enhance recovery, enable efficient Return to Duty and overall improved quality of life. Stratagraft (left) vs. Autograft Repair (right) Temporary Corneal Repair Synthetic skin 14

15 Opportunities for Engaging the Army Transformation Principles Flow, Agility, Quality, Efficiency & Effectiveness ATTRACT AND RETAIN BEST & BRIGHTEST OPEN CAMPUSES SHARED MODERN FACILITIES INNOVATION PRACTICES ACADEMIA Facilities DEFENSE LABORATORIES People TRANSFORMATIVE SCIENCE Resources INDUSTRY Efficient, effective and agile research system Human Scie) nces Information Sciences Sciences for Lethality and Protection Sciences for Maneuver Computational Sciences Materials Research Assessment and Analysis 15

16 Army Science & Technology Providing Soldiers with the Technology to Win 16